Zhong Feng looked at the Amsterdam Parliament in the distance and frowned.
After a week of street fighting, the Tiger Army has basically occupied the entire Amsterdam. Now William II and the last three thousand Dutch sailors are guarding the city parliament building, trying to use the solid outer wall of the granite building to block the cannonballs.
After the Tiger Army conquered France, it took them a month to break into the inner city of Amsterdam. Zhong Feng had to admit that the red-haired Dutch were very brave - after France, Spain and the Italian Federation all surrendered, the Dutch actually fought in Brussels -
The Liege front line fought hard for five days with the Tiger Army. About 120,000 Dutch soldiers were killed by the Tiger Army there. The remaining Dutch soldiers did not surrender, but fled to the Dutch countryside despite artillery fire and pursuit.
He took off his military uniform and hid it.
However, Zhong Feng also felt that maybe the Dutch were actually so brave. In fact, the Dutch had done too many bad things in China, so they were worried about being retaliated by the Tiger Army, so they never surrendered.
More than ten years ago, Dutch pirates, known as the Red Barbarians by the Han people, burned, killed, and looted along the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong, killing fishermen in every village. They even took tens of thousands of Han people to Southeast Asia as slaves. Hot
Lanzhe, the tall Dutch fortress in Batavia, was forged with the blood of countless Han slaves who died of exhaustion and disease.
Therefore, the Dutch people have a very strong will to resist.
Among these people, the most fearful of the Han people were the old Dutch sailors, because many of these old sailors had been to the Far East. At least half of the 3,000 old Dutch sailors guarding the Parliament Building had Han blood on their hands.
At this time, Zhong Feng and Jiang Chong were directing the battle outside the parliament building. Jiang Chong's current military rank was general, and his military uniform was made of high-grade cashmere and was shiny black.
He stood next to the bell peak and used binoculars to look at the parliament building opposite. It was an all-stone building with thick walls and small windows. In fact, it was more like a huge castle. Jiang Chong pursed his lips.
Understand that this building is enough to stop the shrapnel shells of the Tiger Army.
Jiang Chong thought for a while and said to Zhong Feng: "Marshal, I'm afraid only the conical warhead of the front-loading gun can penetrate this building."
The widely equipped Tiger artillery can only use shrapnel and cannot attack fortified areas. Now the Europeans widely use trench defense, and the Tiger artillery has become the protagonist of the battlefield. Zhong Feng's troops even pulled the artillery that attacked the fortified areas behind.
Zhong Feng nodded, pointed to the right and forward, and said: "I expected a tough battle a few days ago, and I have contacted the Logistics Office in Paris. Four 24-pound front-loaded armor-piercing cannons have been shipped.
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Only then did Jiang Chong notice that there were four forward-loading bronze cannons on the artillery position on the right front.
Jiang Chong raised his hands and said to Zhong Feng: "The Marshal has advanced insights and his subordinates admire him!"
Zhong Feng smiled, waved his hand, and ordered the rifled muzzle-loading cannon to start bombarding the Dutch council meeting.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
The four front-loading cannons spit out tongues of flame and fired conical steel-tipped cannonballs at the stone building a mile away. Only a loud noise was heard, and four holes were punched out in the stone wall on the side of the Amsterdam Parliament Building.
There was silence for two seconds after the cannonball was fired into the building, and then a huge shock wave exploded in the building.
Sparks shot out of the hole in the stone wall.
Jiang Chong looked at Zhong Feng, laughed and said: "Marshal, William II has no way to escape now."
Zhong Feng nodded towards Jiang Chong, put down the telescope in his hand, and began to wait for the Dutchman's reaction.
In the parliament building, the Dutch ruler William II looked at a room that had been blown up, his face was as white as paper. The Chinese front-loading cannon destroyed an entire stone room with one shot. I'm afraid it didn't take more than two hundred shots.
, this building will be blown down.
Queen Christina of Sweden once invited William II to go to the mountains of Germany to fight guerrillas, but William II refused. William II felt that he was a proud lowland Dutch noble and could not live in exile outside the Netherlands. If he wanted to die, William II
I will die in Amsterdam too.
Of course he understood that this parliament building could not stop the Chinese. But people will use all means to survive before dying, so when he found that the front-loaded cannon tip cone bullet penetrated the stone wall, he was suddenly in great despair.
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A Dutch fleet captain looked at William II and said in a panic: "What should I do? What should I do, Your Highness?"
William II swallowed his saliva and looked at the fleet captain.
The captain of the fleet was getting more and more panicked. You must know that he had been to the Far East as the governor of Formosa, plundered countless times in Fujian, and killed thousands of Han people. He even fought twice with the Ming Navy.
times. He did not believe that the Han people would let him go. If Li Zhi caught him, he would definitely skin him.
So he followed William II and hid in the parliament building. However, at this time, the arrival of the front-loaded cannon tip cone projectile dashed all hopes of survival.
The captain grabbed William II's arm and prayed: "Find a way! Your Highness! You are the lion of the Netherlands, you must have a way. Save us, save the Netherlands, Your Highness! Only you can save us
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As he spoke, the captain's face was filled with tears, and he was completely stained by tears. His body became weaker and weaker, and he knelt down weakly in front of William II.
The other sailors looked at the captain in panic, and then at His Royal Highness Prince William II of Orange.
William II's family has been in power for the Netherlands for generations, pushing this small country to the top of the world. Although the country is about to perish now, the sailors still trust William II unconditionally.
Looking at those desperate and extremely dependent eyes, William II was speechless, and his originally white face actually turned red.
He always thought that as the son of Frederick Henry, he would develop the small European country that his father had brought great glory to, and at least maintain its national power. However, he did not expect that the Netherlands would be defeated again and again because of the rise of Li Zhi, and was even defeated.
The Han people invaded Europe and destroyed their country.
The Henry family of the Netherlands will be destroyed from now on, and William II will become a complete loser.
What qualifies him to be trusted by sailors and officers like this?
William II glanced at the sailors around him and smiled.
He said: "Don't panic, everyone. I'm going to the vault on the top floor to get a secret weapon. Only I have the key to this vault, which is top secret. With this weapon, we can at least hold on until the Swedish navy comes to pick us up."
Hearing William II's words, the sailors showed expressions of surprise.
The fleet captain on the ground suddenly raised his head and stared into William II's eyes, trying to understand whether what William II said was true or false.
William II nodded and walked up the stairs.
The sailors quickly made way for the Prince of Orange.
William II walked up the stairs and suddenly stopped when he was about to disappear around the corner of the stairs.
He tried his best to put a smile on his face and turned around and said: "You are all the best officers, sailors and soldiers. Thank you for obeying my orders and fighting. I am proud of you!"
Upon hearing this nonsense, the sailors showed confused expressions.
A sailor suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "Long live your highness! The Netherlands will not perish! The Dutch will not perish!"
William II did not respond to the sailor, and his figure disappeared around the corner of the stairs.
However, the sailors could not wait for William II to come downstairs, but suddenly heard a huge gunshot from upstairs.
The old captain of the fleet was the first to react. His face suddenly collapsed and he lowered his head suddenly, showing an extremely sad expression.
A personal guard rushed up and then rolled down the stairs in a panic.
"Your Highness..."
"Your Highness..."
The guard suddenly burst into tears and shouted: "His Royal Highness shot himself!"
Upon hearing the news, all the officers and sailors lost their courage in an instant and fell to their knees on the ground.
Outside the parliament, Jiang Chong put down his telescope and said with a smile: "Marshal, look at that white flag, the people in the parliament building have surrendered."
Zhong Feng nodded and smiled.
He stopped talking nonsense, turned around and jumped into his convertible jeep.
"Jiang Chong! I'm going to Germany to continue the Northern Expedition, and the Netherlands will be left to you. All Dutch sailors who have killed Han people will be shot, and Dutch investors who supported the Dutch East India Company's invasion of China will also be severely punished. These tasks can be done by
The military court has been completed, but you have to check in frequently to ensure that there are enough resources to complete the trial and processing."
Jiang Chong saluted with a standard military salute and replied: "Marshal, don't worry, we will definitely complete the mission."
Zhong Feng nodded and said to the driver: "Go to Munich and join the Third Brigade there."
